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12:25 PM ET, October 11, 2024

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New York Times:
Musk Is Going All In to Elect Trump  —  Elon Musk is planting himself in Pennsylvania, has brought his brain trust to help and may even knock on doors himself.  —  In the final weeks of the presidential campaign, the richest man in the world has involved himself in the U.S. election in a manner unparalleled in modern history.
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
The One Thing Obama Got Wrong  —  Hey, you!  Yeah, I'm talking to you, you resident of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, or these cities' environs!  —  We're coming your way next week—come hang out with us!  And in the meantime: Happy Friday.  —  What Obama Said  —  by Bill Kristol
Discussion: The Root, Raw Story and HuffPost
David Kurtz / Talking Points Memo:
What It Looks Like When One Side Rejects Democracy  —  A lot of things happened.  Here are some of the things.  This is TPM's Morning Memo.  Sign up for the email version.  —  When Democracy Itself Is On the Ballot, We've Already Lost  —  The last few weeks have been a particularly strange stretch …
New York Times:
Trump Aides Sought Enhanced Security for Closing Stages of Campaign  —  Susie Wiles, a top Trump campaign adviser, was in contact with the White House chief of staff and the head of the Secret Service seeking military assets and other steps.  —  Former President Donald J. Trump's campaign …
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Washington Post:
Trump requests military aircraft and vehicles amid Iran threat  —  There is no evidence tying Iran to either of the recent assassination attempts, but the FBI has not ruled out the possibility.  —  Donald Trump's campaign requested military aircraft for Trump to fly in during the final weeks …
NBC News:   Trump won't golf until after the election
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Davidrlurie / Public Notice:
Harris and Walz are winning the economic policy argument
Discussion: Politico
Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Whitmer, Shapiro, Evers to launch battleground bus tour promoting Harris
Discussion: Michigan Advance
Charlie Warzel / The Atlantic:
I'm Running Out of Ways to Explain How Bad This Is … The truth is, it's getting harder to describe the extent to which a meaningful percentage of Americans have dissociated from reality.  As Hurricane Milton churned across the Gulf of Mexico last night, I saw an onslaught …
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Trump ghostwriter ‘deeply unsettled’ by evidence of ex-president's ‘psychopathy’  —  Donald Trump's ghostwriter for his myth-making memoir “The Art of the Deal” explained how the new film “The Apprentice” reveals how the former president's childhood trauma warped him into a “psychopath” …
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Tony Schwartz / New York Times:
What ‘The Apprentice’ Gets Exactly Right About Trump  —  “The Apprentice,” a new movie that dramatizes the early years of Donald Trump's career, ends with a scene between Mr. Trump and an actor who plays me.  The year is 1986 and I'm interviewing Mr. Trump for the first time, to begin ghostwriting …
AP-NORC:
Kamala Harris is viewed more positively by Hispanic voters than Donald Trump  —  Male Hispanic registered voters tend to be divided on their overall opinion of both Harris and Trump or if either one would make a good president.  Female Hispanic voters are inclined to have more positive views …
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Politico:
'They've given up on the idea that they can get women.' How Trump is turning to the other gender gap for victory.
Discussion: Raw Story
Joanne Haner / The Hill:
Michigan newspaper issues correction after Trump claims he won man of year award  —  A Michigan newspaper issued a correction after former President Trump cited the paper at a speech in Detroit, claiming he was Michigan's “Man of the Year” in 2023.  —  The former president pulled out a printout …
Yasmeen Abutaleb / Washington Post:
Obama admonishes Black men for hesitancy in supporting Harris  —  Former president suggests some in the Black community are uncomfortable voting for a woman and are coming up with excuses  —  PITTSBURGH — Former president Barack Obama on Thursday made a direct, impassioned plea to black men …
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William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
Obama Laughs It Up Over Trump Wearing an Adult Diaper
Washington Post:
Inside the Harris campaign's ground game  —  Good morning, Early Birds.  TGIF.  Send tips to earlytips@washpost.com.  Thanks for waking up with us.  —  In today's edition ... Trump's swampy campaign ... Trump 47 captains chase low-propensity voters ... but first ...
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Fritz Farrow / ABC News:   Harris campaign launches ‘Souls to the Polls’ effort to turn out Black churchgoers as Election Day approaches
NBC News:
Cities seek more than $750K in unpaid bills for Trump campaign events since 2016  —  At least four cities and a county are still waiting to be reimbursed for costs associated with local law enforcement and first responders during Trump's visits.  —  Former President Donald Trump held …
Jared Gans / The Hill:
Democrats to swing states: A vote for Jill Stein is a vote for Trump  —  Democrats are arguing in a new pitch to swing-state voters that a vote for Green Party nominee Jill Stein would only help elect former President Trump.  —  An ad released Thursday says that Stein was “key” …
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
James Carville on Aging, Edibles and His Anxieties About Harris … Mr. Carville was among the first prominent Democrats to urge Mr. Biden to drop out of the presidential race.  “I could have been embarrassed.  He could have run and won.  But it never occurred to me that I was wrong,” he said.
Discussion: RedState
Oliver Milman / The Guardian:
'It's mindblowing': US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane conspiracies surge  —  Storms Helene and Milton have triggered rise of misinformation stoked by Trump and fellow Republicans  —  Meteorologists tracking the advance of Hurricane Milton have been targeted by a deluge …
Michael C. Bender / New York Times:
Vance, Given 5 Chances to Say Trump Lost in 2020, Takes None  —  In an interview with The New York Times, Senator JD Vance repeatedly refused to acknowledge Donald J. Trump's defeat and said he would not have certified the 2020 results.  —  Heading into the final three weeks of the 2024 election …
Alexander B. Howard / CIVIC TEXTS:
If you're filing your taxes on the Internet, Uncle Sam needs to know you're not a dog  —  As always, thank you for subscribing and amplifying Civic Texts, which will not be sustainable without you.  Many thanks to everyone who has supported my work, particularly folks who have subscribed to memberships since our soft launch in April.
Discussion: The Register and GovExec.com
NBC News:
Jon Tester pushes for ticket-splitters in a Montana Senate race that appears to be slipping away  —  Trump voters look set to decide the Senate majority.  The main fight in Montana is all about how many of them longtime Democratic Sen. Jon Tester can entice to split their tickets.
Jim Lockwood / The Times-Tribune:
Scranton firefighters were not holding pro-Trump signs at rally  —  The Scranton Fire Department firefighters' union had nothing to do with several signs stating “Scranton Firefighters for Trump” held and displayed by members of the public at the former president's campaign event Wednesday in Scranton, the union announced on Facebook.
Discussion: New Republic, Joe.My.God. and Raw Story
Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Roger Stone Suggests Using ‘Armed Guards’ During Election in Secret Video  —  The Trump ally explains how to ensure the former president returns to office in undercover footage from liberal documentarian Lauren Windsor  —  DONALD TRUMP IS still mad he lost in 2020, and this year he and his allies …
Vogue:
Vice President Kamala Harris on Her Race to the Finish  —  If politics is a game best played in temperate weather, Kamala Harris's arrival in Ripon, Wisconsin, on October 3 caught the luck of an unseasonably warm sun.  It's 71 degrees—by Wisconsin standards, summer—when Air Force Two touches …
Ed Mazza / HuffPost:
'He's Not Well': Trump's Bizarre Off-Topic Ramble Raises Alarm Over ‘Mental Capacity’  —  The former president jumped from topic to topic to topic during a stream-of-consciousness rant.  —  LOADING  —  Donald Trump's rambling speech at the Detroit Economic Club on Thursday at times veered …
Wall Street Journal:
When the Hurricane-Relief Worker Turns Out To Be a Neo-Nazi  —  Seizing on the politicization of the government response, white supremacist groups have turned out to help after recent storms in North Carolina and Florida in order to boost recruitment and burnish their image
Discussion: Joe.My.God.
 
 
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Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
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Politico:
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 Earlier Items: 
Joey Nolfi / Entertainment Weekly:
ABC airs anti-abortion ad with disturbing images during The View broadcast comparing show cohosts to Nazis
Discussion: Mediaite
Matthew Continetti / freebeacon.com:
How Harris Bombed Her Media Blitz
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
The Problem With This Conspiracy Theory Is Reality
ProPublica:
In Texas' Third-Largest County, the Far Right's Vision for Local Governing Has Come to Life
Discussion: Houston Public Media
Axios:
Behind the Curtain: The Republican welfare state
NOTUS:
Trump's 2020 Fake Electors Are Now 2024 Electors — And State Officials Too
New York Post:
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer feeds Doritos to left-wing influencer in deeply bizarre ‘communion’ video